Pedestrians in Joppa, Dundalk struck and killed by cars

Two pedestrians were struck and killed by cars in separate incidents in Joppa and Dundalk on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, authorities said.

A Baltimore woman who had gotten out of her car Tuesday night after a fender-bender in Joppa was struck and killed by another car as she stood on the shoulder of the highway. Separately, a man was struck and killed by an SUV in Dundalk at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

In Joppa, the woman, identified as Nora Schleicher, 59, had been involved in a crash with another car on Pulaski Highway near Joppa Road, Maryland State Police said. The two cars were stopped in the right lane of the road, and another car swerved onto the shoulder to avoid hitting the cars, striking Schleicher, MSP said.

Schleicher, of the Medford neighborhood of Baltimore, was taken to a hospital in grave condition, where she was pronounced dead, the state police and the Joppa-Magnolia Fire Company said. The fatal crash happened at around 9:30 p.m.

Information has been forwarded to prosecutors in case they decide to press charges against the driver, a 23-year-old Joppatowne woman. No one else was injured.

In the Dundalk crash, which happened in the 4200 block of North Point Blvd., police said a woman was driving an SUV northbound when a man walked in front of the car from the median. The victim, identified as Irwin Joseph Combs, 55, of Dundalk was pronounced dead on the scene. Witnesses told police that Combs appeared to be stumbling in the median before the crash.

In Baltimore County, another person was struck by a police car Tuesday night and was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Police said officers were in the area around Rossville Boulevard and Yellow Brick Road in Rosedale at around 7:40 p.m. investigating reports of people involved in "criminal activity." Two people, who were not otherwise identified, ran from the police, and one was struck by a marked police car that was coming to the scene for backup.

The person who was struck was taken to a hospital as "a precautionary measure" and was cited for possession of marijuana, police said. No information was available on the second person.

Baltimore police also released the identities of two people killed after their SUV collided with a MARC train Tuesday morning. The driver of the vehicle, Morgan Fleet, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Wayne Burnett Jr., the 38-year-old passenger, died later at a hospital.

Police also determined that a woman who was struck and killed by a Charm City Circulator bus in front of Johns Hopkins committed suicide and that weather and driver error were not factors. The victim was identified as Stephanie Albright, 50, of Ellicott City.